Israel Aerospace Industries will Supply Three New Super Dvora Fast Patrol
Boats to the Israel Navy

Israel Aerospace Industries' (IAI) Ramta division has won
a contract to supply three Super Dvora Mk 3 fast patrol boats
to the Israel Navy. The Super Dvora Mk 3, an advanced development
of the Ramta Division, is a mainstay of the Israel Navy's
ongoing security activities.

BAE
Systems hands over second Khareef class Corvette for Royal Navy of Oman

Portsmouth,
UK: BAE Systems has handed over a new warship to the Royal
Navy of Oman amid colourful celebrations on HM Naval Base
Portsmouth this morning. AL
RAHMANI is the second of three 99 metre corvettes designed,
built and delivered for the Royal Navy of Oman as part of
Project Khareef. Her Interim Acceptance, in which the ship’s
title is transferred before sailing to Oman, marks an important
milestone for the project.

Russia’s
new nuclear-powered submarine, the Alexander Nevsky, has completed
sea trials, a shipbuilder said Monday. Work
on the Borey-class project is “on schedule,” the
Sevmash shipyard said, without providing any indication of
when the submarine would join the navy.

General
Dynamics Bath Iron Works successfully launched the Navy's
first Zumwalt-class destroyer Oct. 28 at their Bath, Maine
shipyard. The
future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) will be the lead ship of the
Navy's newest destroyer class, designed for littoral operations
and land attack.

French company iXBlue to provide inertial navigation systems for Royal
Navy Aircraft Carriers

iXBlue has been selected to provide inertial navigation systems
for the two Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers currently
being built by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance for the UK Royal
Navy. The bridge system for each of the carriers will incorporate
two iXBlue MARINS units. Trials have already been conducted
to optimise the configuration of the units to meet the specific
operational requirements of the vessels.

A
special trials version of Wildcat – replacement for
the trusty Lynx which has been in service since the 1970s
– has joined aviation training/casualty treatment ship
RFA Argus to gather crucial data to allow the helicopter fly
from large Royal Navy warships. Wildcat
will spend the bulk of its time operating from Royal Navy
frigates and destroyers – just like its predecessor.

The
Navy variant of the F-35 executed the first airborne separation
test of an inert weapon on 21 October. Marine
Corps test pilot Capt Justin Carlson flew the F-35C test aircraft
known as CF-2 over an Atlantic test range when he released
the 500-pound inert Guided Bomb Unit-12 (GBU-12) Paveway II
laser-guided weapon from an internal weapons bay. With Monday's
weapons separation, all three F-35 variants have released
ordnance from their weapons bays.

China
reveals pictures of its first generation SSN and SSBN Submarine Force

China
has made a historic decision to reveal details about its nuclear
submarine force. Mainstream media outlets across the country
have provided wide coverage about the force's first fleet,
its safety record, as well as training and technological advancements.
But what does this transparency mean? What signals is China
trying to send? Xinhuanet reporter Han Bin interviews Chinese
military experts to find out more.

Malaysian
Ministry of Defence Confirms Construction of Gowind ships for LCS program

Boustead
Heavy Industries Corporation BHD (BHIC) announced in early
october that its associate company Boustead Naval Shipyard
has received confirmation from the Malaysian Ministry of Defence
on a 10 year contract worth RM9 billion to build six Second
Generation Patrol Vessel (SGPV) as part of the Malaysian Littoral
Combat Ship (LCS) program.

Raytheon
Company and the U.S. Navy demonstrated the capability of the
newest version of the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) C-1 by
establishing communications among an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
aircraft, an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft and the JSOW C-1.

FREMM
frigate Normandie, the second of the Aquitaine class for the
French Navy, put to sea for the first time on 25 October.
This milestone marks the beginning of the ship’s sea
trials, which will take place off Brittany and are expected
to last several weeks.

Northrop Grumman to Supply Polar Ice Breaker Navigation Support for
U.S. Coast Guard

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been awarded a
service contract for navigation systems and software to support
the polar ice breakers for the U. S. Coast Guard. The
$5 million, five-year contract covers support for two Coast
Guardvessels, the Polar Star and the Healy. These polar ice
breakers are used to clear pathways for supply ships and support
research missions. Northrop Grumman has provided comparable
support for the Coast Guard's polar ice breakers since 1999.

The scale model of the Incheon class frigate Batch II was
unveiled by DSME in the 63rd anniversary festival of the Incheon
landing operation in the Korean War. Key updates of the Batch
II over the ASW-focused Batch I include VLS and full electric
propulsion system, as well as a larger hangar that can accomodate
a 10-ton helicopter (Batch-I has hangar for lighter helicopters
like AW159).

Under
a $34.5 million U.S. Navy contract, Northrop Grumman Corporation
will modify the French Navy's fleet of three E-2C Hawkeyes
with an upgraded Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system,
further increasing commonality and interoperability with U.S.
Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.

On
26 September 2013, in La Spezia bay, a great day occurred
for OCCAR, OSN and the Italian Navy. Three IT FREMM ships,
ITS Carlo BERGAMINI (already delivered to the Italian Navy
and now engaged in completing some minor works after the official
acceptance by the Italian Navy on 29 May 2013), Virginio FASAN
(engaged in Platform and Combat system preparatory trials
for the delivery to the Navy) and Carlo MARGOTTINI (at her
first sea going) were together at sea.

French
Navy nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle out at sea for
Pilot Training

The
aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (CVN R91) left Toulon naval
base on October 16 with its full crew and airwing onboard
(Rafale, Super-Etendard Modernisé, Hawkeye, Dauphin
helicopter). The training will focus mainly on the validation
of pilot skills in two consecutive phases.

Lockheed
Martin’ Sniper pod is the most widely deployed targeting
system for fixed-wing aircraft in use by the U.S. Air Force,
and is the targeting system of choice for 16 international
air forces. With a possible US Navy requirement in the near
future for next-generation target pods, Lockheed Martin feels
it has the right system to answer current and future needs.

Russia
will start delivering Uran-E missile complexes ordered by
Azerbaijan from next year, APA reports quoting military sources.
Azerbaijan made $75 mln-order to Russian Tactical Rocket Arms
corporation in 2010. Realization of the order will start from
the end of the current year. These naval missiles will be
used in arming of naval forces of Azerbaijan.

Israeli Navy building up a fleet of sophisticated next-generation submarines

They
move silently underwater, but don’t let the quiet fool
you – these are sophisticated tools of war. This unseen
world is the everyday landscape of the Israel Navy. A special
IDF submarine course is training increasingly larger numbers
of sailors to operate the Navy’s next generation of
submarines. Three of these submarines originated in the IDF’s
possession, and an additional submarine was brought to Israel
as part of an agreement with Germany.

Gulf of Aden - The Ukrainian Navy frigate HETMAN SAGAIYDACHNIY
joined the Alliance’s Operation Ocean Shield on 10 October,
marking the first time a partner nation has contributed to
NATO’s counter-piracy effort, which has been operating
off the Horn of Africa, since 2009.

A taskforce of the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation
Army (PLAN) which is composed of the guided missile destroyer
“Lanzhou” and the guided missile frigate “Liuzhou”
carried out a maritime joint exercise with the frigates “Lynch”
(FF-07) and “Capitán Prat” (FFG-11), and
five airplanes of the Chilean Navy on October 10, 2013.

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced today that its
Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division began flooding the
dry dock where the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78)
has been under construction since November 2009. With the
push of a dozen buttons, ship’s sponsor Susan Ford Bales
initiated the flow of more than 100 million gallons of water
into the dry dock.

ATK's
AARGM Anti-Radiation Missile Earns Second Full-Rate Production Award
from U.S. Navy

ATK,
a world leader in ammunition, precision guided weapons and
rocket motors, has been awarded a contract valued at $102.4
million by the U.S. Navy for the second full-rate production
lot (FRP 2) of the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile
(AARGM). The contract covers AARGM and Captive Air Training
Missiles (CATMs) for the U.S. Navy, Italian Air Force and
CATMs for the Royal Australian Air Force.

Huntington
Ingalls Industries announced today that the amphibious transport
dock Somerset (LPD 25) returned from successful U.S. Navy
acceptance sea trials on Sept. 20. The company's ninth ship
in the San Antonio (LPD 17) class returned to the company's
Avondale facility following three days of at-sea demonstrations
and testing.

Raytheon awarded US Navy next generation Air and Missile Defense Radar
(AMDR) contract

Raytheon Company has been awarded a $385,742,176 cost-plus-incentive-fee
contract for the engineering and modeling development phase
design, development, integration, test and delivery of Air
and Missile Defense S-Band Radar (AMDR-S) and Radar Suite
Controller (RSC). AMDR is the Navy's next generation integrated
air and missile defense radar and is being designed for Flight
III Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) class destroyers beginning in 2016.